In the space provided, please write a concise narrative in which you describe a meaningful event, experience or accomplishment in your life and how it will affect your college experience or your contribution to the UF campus community. You may want to reflect on your ideas about student responsibility, academic integrity, campus citizenship or a call to service.
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Moving on, the simple term is defined as the ability an individual to leave everything and letting go. But why should I try to let go to something so dear in my heart? The coherent line that connects my events and has helped me in becoming the person that stands on her two feet today? For Andrea Acosta, a student in Colegio Agustiniano Cristo Rey who was twelve, on the edge of becoming an adolescent and who dearly loved her family and friends; it became an impossible task.
As I got off the airplane, I realized what I was getting into. The people around me were speaking a language that I did not understand, the heat surrounding me was interminable and suffocating, and my eyes were watery from leaving my home. I was lost and did not want to be there. I missed my family and friends and mostly as I asked myself the question, where do I belong?
This question was probably the hardest one to answer in my adolescence; I didn't belong in Venezuela because I wasn't there. Yet I did not belong in Weston because I didn't have much in common with the people I encountered. These destroyed me, the "what ifs" of my past made circles around my mind.
With time I realized the significance of the quote "when life gave you lemons you had to make the best of it" .Once a person is out of their country of origin they become a person of the world rather an inhabitant of their homeland. I saw situations and circumstances with a different perspective while still attaining wisdom difficult to understand at my age. I became one that immigrates and I stop being part of a single culture, I became an open book where people could color in, draw outside the lines and most importantly had the key rule to never close. I became a mixture of folklore and cultures. I realized that there is nothing more exciting than to keep experiencing, that rush that you get when the comfort zone is destroyed, when a human being is capable of traveling and living.
I realized that people minds and cultures fascinated me; this experience has made me the person that I am today and made me realize that I have a strong desire to major in a field in social sciences. I want to deeply scrutinize on the human brain, learn its oddities and differences. I want to learn from people and I want to enjoy each and every personality that I meet. My hopes for UF are these, to build a foundation for a future where I can investigate humanity's past, present and its peculiarities.
andrea acosta
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